Synonym: incumbency, land tenure, term of office. Similar words: penury, penurious, tenuous, attenuate, nurse, menu, avenue, revenue. Meaning: ['te‚njə(r)] n. 1. the term during which some position is held 2. the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands. v. give life-time employment to.
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91. We would argue that as socialist feminists it is important to challenge owner-occupation as a form of tenure.
92. Private renting tends to be a residual tenure for all the social classes.
93. Sununu's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House.
94. Tenure was necessary on the main campus, he said, but dispensable on the new Arizona International Campus.
95. It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press.
96. What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial.
97. They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation.
98. In both types of tenure sale was almost as frequent as change through inheritance.
99. Their security of tenure is deemed essential for fruitful and unremitting thought.
100. The correlation between lay take-over of offices and their conversion to life tenure is high in the Exchequer.
101. And the tenure of conductors, as of managers, can end in tears for reasons that seem incomprehensible to outsiders.
102. But there are also signs that the most treasured possession of the academic elites, tenure, is under assault.
103. The situation for teachers without tenure varies according to the circumstances surrounding the dismissal.
104. The average tenure in the Lower East Side was about fifteen years.
105. The little Styrofoam houses he used to show off his idea were as far as the scheme advanced during his tenure.
106. During Ellis's tenure at Kurunagala cattle stealing went into a sharp decline, but as soon as he left the district it revived.
107. The system of reversion could also be used, as we have seen, to establish something near to defacto hereditary tenure.
108. During his own tenure as astronomer royal, from 1720 to 1742, Halley studiously tracked the moon.
109. John Munger, perennial troublemaker on the Board of Regents, attacked both affirmative action and tenure.
109. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
110. Robert Marshak had promised to award full-professor status as well as tenure to a qualified candidate.
111. And yet this matter of the battle at Pilleth could not be left unanswered, for the sake of his tenure.
112. But the justices' great source of freedom and power is the lifetime tenure granted them by the Constitution.
113. While Brown touted initiatives created in his tenure, some of the speech was laced with hyperbole.
114. However in the early days of her tenure at Althorp, the children simply treated Raine as a joke.
115. Like his entire tenure as chairman, the scene had an element of incongruity that amounted to the surreal.
116. The tenure of a person's housing has been shown to be a consequence of marital breakdown in many cases.
117. Pete Wilson has made opposition to illegal immigration and affirmative action central themes during his tenure in Sacramento.
118. Tenure: Leasehold with c. 80 years to run. Vacant possession upon completion of purchase.
119. Many senior public officials keep their stocks in blind trusts throughout their tenure in office.
120. During his tenure at the university, the school held 14 functions at Blackberry Farm that cost $ 64, 626.